Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Gemini 3.6 Flash
Different efforts: medium · high · Compare all at high
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high42.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash53
GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1 GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1: Real work tasks from many professions (reports, spreadsheets, analyses), graded against expert work
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high35.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash39.2
τ³-Banking · AA τ³-Banking · AA: Agents retrieve banking knowledge and execute tools to resolve customer-support workflows
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high32.2
Gemini 3.6 Flash29.9
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high6.6
Gemini 3.6 Flash7.1
AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo: Agents produce professional deliverables; blind pairwise comparisons produce the source Elo rating
Gemini 3.5 Flash876.8
Gemini 3.6 Flash953.9
AA-LCR (long context) 1.1 AA-LCR (long context) 1.1: Questions that need reading and connecting facts across very long documents (around 100K tokens)
Gemini 3.5 Flash74.3
Gemini 3.6 Flash80
DeepSWE 1.1 DeepSWE 1.1: Agents change repository code to resolve software engineering tasks under the stated DeepSWE edition
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high36.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash46.7
Toolathlon-Verified Toolathlon-Verified: Toolathlon-Verified as reported in this launch evaluation; the post is the authority for the recorded task and grading scope
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high67.3
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
AA Analyst Agent AA Analyst Agent: Data-analyst tasks: the model explores data with tools and reports findings
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high45
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
ITBench SRE ITBench SRE: IT incident tasks: diagnose and fix broken systems like a site-reliability engineer
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high40.3
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
APEX-Agents APEX-Agents: Agents complete long-horizon professional-services tasks across realistic applications
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high47.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Terminal-Bench Hard (version unstated) Terminal-Bench Hard (version unstated): Agents solve difficult software, system-administration and data-processing tasks in a terminal
Gemini 3.5 Flash39.4
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA: Agents complete stateful enterprise workflows in eight domains; final database state determines success
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high50.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
EBR Bench EBR Bench: Agents learn to play Earthborne Rangers across repeated playthroughs
Gemini 3.5 Flash · high4.8
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Furniture Assembly Furniture Assembly: Models inspect furniture assembly photos, identify incorrect builds and locate the mistaken step
Gemini 3.5 Flash—
Gemini 3.6 Flash23.3
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| AutomationBench-AA | 42.1 · high | 53 |
| GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1 | 35.1 · high | 39.2 |
| τ³-Banking · AA | 32.2 · high | 29.9 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 6.6 · high | 7.1 |
| AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo | 876.8 | 953.9 |
| AA-LCR (long context) 1.1 | 74.3 | 80 |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 36.1 · high | 46.7 |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 67.3 · high | — |
| AA Analyst Agent | 45 · high | — |
| ITBench SRE | 40.3 · high | — |
| APEX-Agents | 47.1 · high | — |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (version unstated) | 39.4 | — |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA | 50.1 · high | — |
| EBR Bench | 4.8 · high | — |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 23.3 |
Specs
| Spec | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Input, per 1M | $1.50 | !$0.75 |
| Output, per 1M | $9 | !$3.75 |
| Cost per task? | — | $1.60 |
| Speed, tok/s | 199 | 209 |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Weights | Closed | Closed |
| Released | May 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| See images | ✓ | ✓ |
| Read PDFs | Partial | ✓ |
| Hear audio | ✓ | ✓ |
| Watch video | ✓ | ✓ |
| Call tools | ✓ | ✓ |
| Force a tool call | Partial | Partial |
| Return strict JSON | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search the web | ? | ✓ |
| Run code | ? | ✓ |
| Use a computer | ? | Partial |
What breaks when you switch
Gemini 3.5 Flash → Gemini 3.6 Flash
Nothing known.
Gemini 3.6 Flash → Gemini 3.5 Flash
Nothing known.